Norway calls for time with Russian school buses out of control

After 13 years of school, Selma Jenvin-Steinsvag and her classmate Aksel were running to arrest the Oslo metro in a red ministry. “All of our written tests will be performed,” said Salma, 18,.

School lines scene, known here as a name RussianWandering in a colored minister is a bit of the next tradition that lights up the weeks before the National Day of Norway on May 17.

This is today Russian Finally, you can relax after their exams and get one final. But for increasing numbers of young Norwegians, the parties began weeks ago, before their exams ended.

There is one side of the celebrations that sparked parental and politicians alike – Russian bus.

“It is a party full! We go out every night for a month, and we are drunk, and we celebrate with our friends and it is just fun!” Edofard Anistad, 19, says the school on the western side of Oslo.

Fear is that all weeks of parties as well as the pressure of the peer concerned have a harmful effect on the welfare of comprehensive teenagers, as well as their degrees.

A small wealth is often spent in renting and decorating buses and many schools are taking debt to pay for everything.

A Russian bus It leads all night from around midnight to early morning. Henrik Watthen, 18, says we are really playing music and truly high parties.

Besides all the fun, there were complaints stating that the celebrations led to a large drinking, drug use and a little sleep. There are also fears that many adolescents feel that they cannot afford the cost.

All of this coincides with the exam period.

Prime Minister Jonas Jonas Sahr said last year that he also enjoyed its graduation, but the party’s bus culture has gone out of control.

His intervention followed years of public debate, with objections from the authorities as well as many school lines and their parents.

“We are concerned about some negative trends in our schools and neighborhoods, and within the culture of Norwegian youth in general,” says Solveig Haukenes Aase, who graduates this year.

Her younger two children have not started yet, and she complains that culture affects younger teenagers as well: “In recent years, she has also started an effect on middle school children.”

Along with other parents, it was a group aimed at making the environment for young people safer.

“The position of the school authorities in the past was a special issue, Russian “The celebration is something that happens in your spare time,” she told the BBC.

“But there was a change in the mentality between teachers, school principals and school authorities, and it is now widely recognized that the new Russian Culture has a great impact on the school environment. “

“A problem for many years was the celebrations and the examination period is intertwined.”

The BBC has told the BBC that school lines faced difficulties in focusing on exams due to parties and that the results have decreased because of this.

“The celebration has also become large commercial and excluding, and we see that these negative effects are spread along the lower high school.

“We want to put an end to social exclusion, peer pressure and high costs for many young people. We are now working to create a new and more comprehensive celebration.”

The plan is now to ensure the transfer of celebrations from next year to the post -interrogation period.

The tradition of the party’s bus returns to Oslo in the early eighties of the last century and tends to be more prevalent among some of the most elite schools.

But it is now patriotic in size, and Ivar Brandvol, who wrote about this tradition, believes that the primary goal of the bus has changed now, so that the bus celebrations are no longer involved in the entire school category but a more selected group instead.

“Another change is the amount of money you need to be part of the bus set. Some bus sets will get a budget of up to 3 million kronor (220,000 pounds) even if they choose to rent it only,” he says.

“Sound systems are shipped from all over Europe. To pay bills, groups often sell toilet paper to friends, family and neighbors for a little profit. But children have to sell a lot of toilet paper to earn enough, and they usually end up using savings and entry into debt.”

There is a wide acceptance in Norway that the culture of the party bus in the school must be reduced.

The government is also concerned about the potential risks of adolescent safety, as they dance on the buses around them during the night.

“We want the graduation category for this year the last category that is allowed to use buses transferred with side -confrontation seats and an existing space while driving,” says John Evar Negard, Minister of Transport in Norway. “We can no longer send our youth in unsafe buses.”

For many potential school lines in Norway, the government’s plan goes largely.

“The government wants to rob the side seats on buses and only have a collective sitting. I think it is the wrong way to go.”

And when it comes to addressing totalitarian problems in buses, he and his friend Henrique believed that the authorities follow the wrong approach.

Only half of the 120 schools in its year were part of the party group, and they agreed on part of the cause the high cost.

But the two young men say they spent years planning for celebrations, and even getting jobs on the side to pay the whole experience.

“This will not help in treating exclusion,” Edofard, who indicates that banning some buses will mean that there will be fewer buses to wander. “If there is anything, this is the opposite, so it is the wrong way to go.”